6pm Sun | Community Sit: This hourlong gathering of a community of meditators offers mutual support through meditation and loving kindness, periodically varying its practice and sharing experiences with meditation. FMIcperlman@bates.edu.Gomes Chapel

Bates gamelan musicians, led by Associate Professor of Music Gina Fatone (at right), are shown in February. Students in an Indonesian music course perform May 19. (Josh Kuckens/Bates College)

19 Fri

7:30pm | L/A in L-A: Brooklyn-based director Peter Richards helms a devised performance based on the fabled Sonny Liston–Muhammad Ali championship boxing match held in Lewiston in 1965. Catherine Morse ’17, Colby Harrison ’17 and Samuel Hersh ’18 created and are performing the piece for a Short Term theater production workshop. FMI 207-786-6161.Pettigrew Hall, Gannett Theater

8pm | Music of West Java, Indonesia: A program of traditional and contemporary music performed on Bates’ gamelan instruments by students in the course “Performing Musical Art of Indonesia.” Special guests are Een Herdiani, a dancer and director of a conservatory for the arts in West Java; and Undang Sumarna, a master drummer who teaches West Javanese gamelan at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Free, but tickets required: batesconcerts.eventbrite.com. FMI 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu.Olin Concert Hall

20 Sat

7:30pm | L/A in L-A (see May 19).Pettigrew Hall, Gannett Theater

21 Sun

5pm | L/A in L-A (see May 19).Pettigrew Hall, Gannett Theater

22 Mon

4pm | Scholar Tea: Charif Shanahan: The English department’s Scholar Tea series presents a reading and Q&A with acclaimed poet Shanahan, author of Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing. FMItpickens@bates.edu or 207-786-6420.Commons 226

4:15pm | A Way With Words: On Translating Homer’s “Iliad.” A talk by Caroline Alexander, author of the bestselling The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition. Her 2015 translation of TheIliad has been praised as “unembellished, faithful to the Greek, and uniquely accessible.” Sponsored by the classical and medieval studies program and the Costas and Mary Maliotis Foundation. FMIdbegin@bates.edu.Hedge 106

23 Tue

7pm | Humankind and the Natural Order: Drawing upon long experience with indigenous people during his career as a public prosecutor, Rupert Ross developed a different vision of the relationship between humankind and the natural order, and found a different understanding of restorative justice. This presentation explores those concepts and how they shape approaches to justice that transform into truly restorative processes. Presented by the Bates Purposeful Work Practitioner Taught Course in Mediation and Restorative Justice. FMImcowan@bates.edu.Pettengill G52

24 Wed

4pm | Short Term Curricular Innovation Showcase: An annual presentation of intensive practical collaborations that are transforming teaching at Bates. In Course (Re)design projects, students and faculty work side by side to redesign learning experiences of great meaning to them. Meanwhile, visiting Short Term Practitioners from all corners of industry bring skills and expertise to enhance the applicability of the Bates education to a life of meaningful work. FMImcowan@bates.edu.Pettengill Hall, Perry Atrium

7:30pm | Short Term Recital: Students in the Short Term course “Performance in Western Classical Music,” taught by Christy Thomas, perform a program TBA. Free but tickets required: batesconcerts.eventbrite.com. FMI 207-786-6135 or acarr@bates.edu.Olin Concert Hall

25 Thu

7:30pm | Strange Bedfellows: Bates’ only improv comedy group presents its final show of the year and celebrates graduating seniors Will Koller, Whitney Lees and Dan Peeples. FMIierickso@bates.edu.Chase Hall B18

Museum of Art

Through May 27, 2017

Senior Thesis Exhibition 2017: The museum’s relationship with the Department of Art and Visual Culture entails a commitment to supporting the work of Bates students through this exhibition showcasing work in diverse media from the thesis projects of graduating studio art majors — 17 this year. The program emphasizes the creation of a cohesive body of work through sustained studio practice and critical inquiry.